The drivers of academic cheating in online learning among Filipino undergraduate students

ABSTRACT

The susceptibility of online learning to cheating behavior remains a contentious and unresolved issue. A cross-sectional explanatory research design was utilized to test the hypothesized factors influencing academic cheating in online learning. Our study involved 562 participants, selected through a non-probability sampling technique, who were surveyed using online questionnaires designed to measure the identified factors. We tested the hypotheses by utilizing path analysis through the partial least square regression approach within the SMART-PLS software. The demographics such as gender and age of the students, along with the roles of teachers and school administration significantly influenced the students’ instances of self-reported academic cheating. The students’ attitude toward academic cheating emerged as an important factor in predicting cheating behaviors. The paper concludes with recommendations for future research explorations into other potential factors that may contribute to academic dishonesty in online learning.

KEYWORDS:

• Academic cheating
• fear of god
• Filipino undergraduate students
• school factors

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The dataset for this study is available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author.

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Funding

The authors received no funding for this study.